Soul Quotes by Oscar Wilde

“I would give my soul for that!”

— Oscar Wilde

“The life that was to make his soul would mar his body.”

— Oscar Wilde

memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

— Oscar Wilde

because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.

— Oscar Wilde

Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

— Oscar Wilde

I drink to separate my body from my soul.

— Oscar Wilde

For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

— Oscar Wilde

“I would not give! I would give my soul”

— Oscar Wilde

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of…

— Oscar Wilde

Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

— Oscar Wilde

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

— Oscar Wilde

“I shall show you my soul. You shall see the thing that you fancy only God can see.”

— Oscar Wilde

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

— Oscar Wilde

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

— Oscar Wilde

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

— Oscar Wilde

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

— Oscar Wilde

He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for…

— Oscar Wilde

I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory…

— Oscar Wilde

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate:…

— Oscar Wilde

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows…

— Oscar Wilde

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which…

— Oscar Wilde

The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and…

— Oscar Wilde

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with…

— Oscar Wilde

I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the…

— Oscar Wilde

The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you,…

— Oscar Wilde

It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than…

— Oscar Wilde

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that…

— Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He…

— Oscar Wilde

How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall…

— Oscar Wilde

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it…

— Oscar Wilde

Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her…

— Oscar Wilde

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over…

— Oscar Wilde

“Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with…

— Oscar Wilde

My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the…

— Oscar Wilde

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that…

— Oscar Wilde

“Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is inevitable. The world…

— Oscar Wilde

“The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no…

— Oscar Wilde

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some…

— Oscar Wilde

How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

— Oscar Wilde

“Soul and body, body and soul-- how mysterious they were!”

— Oscar Wilde